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Having watched the video, I can see how the other parents would've been frustrated. The kid was truly kicking ass and the dad was being obnoxious about it (also, apparently the kid was 3 and the rest of the kids were 5?).
However, calling the cops on a black family for trespassing still seems extreme and unnecessarily endangering imo. People have been killed for less.
Some people exist in a world where every boundary is a fence that needs to be tested. They're obnoxious and irritating to every person they meet that doesn't see the world that way. It would never have made the news if when asked to join a competitive league, which most parents would see as a compliment, they simply did so. He could blast off on tiktok about it all he wanted and probably gotten the sympathetic ears he so clearly craves. But they caused a scene instead.
I have the great misfortune of working with a number of people like this. They cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be talked down. If you tell them something is a certain way and that can't be changed, and they don't like that answer, they will continue to cause a scene about it until something else grabs their attention. They are a problem. They seek to be a problem. That is their goal. Being a problem gets them what they want. To be very clear, they are frequently consciously aware that they are a nuisance, and occasionally even aware that they're wrong. That does not matter.
The coach isn't there to deal with parents, he's there to help the kids. There isn't anyone there to deal with parents. The coach has a responsibility to see to the kids and ensure the other parents are happy with the service. The coach is left with little other recourse.
It was a black guy who called the cops.
Black people can also do racist things towards other black people
Fair enough, but those instances are aberrations when compared to the vast wall of continuing white supremacy. They didn't frame the headline that way to point the finger at black folks, or to inflame white folks.